MA Migration, Society and Policy Programme Leader Dr Alessio D’Angelo is a member of the Middlesex team working on ‘EVI-MED – Constructing an Evidence Base of Mediterranean Migrations’, an ESRC-DFID project. In his latest blog post, he reports from Sicily where the ‘hotspot approach’ has dramatically altered the landscape of Italy’s migrant crisis.

Over the last few months the so-called migrant crisis in the Mediterranean has been described in terms of ‘chaos’. These or related terms have been used with particular regard to the situation in Greece, which – according to the official statistics – saw nearly one million sea arrivals between January 2015 and January 2016. The ‘chaos’, however, is not in the numbers.

Reception crisis

This is, on the one hand, a crisis of international and European politics – the diplomatic stand-offs of the last few days show it quite clearly – and on the other, it is a

Here is a new update of the map of Kurdish community organisations. I have added a few more and introduced a visual classification, also plotting important organisations which are now closed. As usual, if you have any feedback on the map (did I forget anything important? Any inaccuracy you can spot?) please send me an […]

Seminar – London Kurdish Institute and SOAS Kurdish Society Tuesday, 8 April 2014 from 19:00 to 21:00 Speaker: Dr İsmail Beşikçi “The Turkish sociologist İsmail Beşikçi is one of the most prominent scholar in the field of Kurdish studies. He started his academic career at Atatürk University in Erzurum as an assistant professor where he […]